Haesje van Cleyburg, the wife of a wealthy Rotterdam beer brewer, is fashionably yet extremely soberly dressed. She has not been made more beautiful than she was: the wrinkles, shadows under her eyes, the
bushy eyebrows, and the greying hair are all rendered with painstaking realism. What makes the portrait so charming is the faint smile that plays across her slightly parted lips.

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Purchased with the support of the Stichting Jubileumfonds Rijksmuseum, the State of the Netherlands, the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Rijksmuseum-Stichting, the Grote Loterij Nederland, the Stichting Klaver Vier, the Stichting Teleslag, the business community and private collectors